Whois & Analysis for museter.com

SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet.

The software, developed by Nullsoft, is available free of charge.

It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations".

Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation.

It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project.

Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with.

Version 2 was started in 2001, a ground-up rewrite aimed at multi-format support (initially targeting Ogg Vorbis) and scalability; this rewrite was released in January 2004.

Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, online radio, webcasting) is an audio service transmitted via the Internet.

Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means.

In computing, bandwidth is the bit-rate of available or consumed information capacity expressed typically in metric multiples of bits per second.

Variously, bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth.

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

Generally, it is a receiver or transmitter, an antenna, and some smaller additional equipment necessary to operate them.

Radio stations play a vital role in communication technology as they are heavily relied on to transfer data and information across the world.